Dr Jennifer Yee

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Academic Background

Dr Yee completed a BA at the University of Sydney in English and French Literature. She continued her studies in Paris with a French Government Scholarship to complete a Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies in French literature at the University of Paris VII, followed by a Doctorat on French colonial literature. She taught English language and literature briefly at the Université de Toulouse-le-Mirail, and was then a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Newcastle. She has been a tutor at Christ Church since January 2005.

Undergraduate Teaching

French language and literature

Research Interests

Nineteenth-century colonial and 'exotic' writing, and the representation of gender and racial difference in the nineteenth century, as well as twentieth-century francophone writing.